Dynamo-electric machine.



S. SPARROW.

DYNAMQ ELECTRIC MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15,1912.

1 ,1'O4,7 1 5, Patented July 21, 1.91

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ATTORNEY S- SPARROW.

DYNAMO ELECTRIC MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE15,1912.

1,104,715, Patented July 21, 192.4,

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WITNESSES: EIVTOR QM A M A UNITED srsi cur os.

SIMON SPARRQW, OE ST. LOU ES, lhIISSOUfEi-I, ASSIBIGIQ'OR TO WAGNER ELECTRIC MANU- FACTURING CGMPANY, OF ST. 130 1713; MISSOURI, A CORPORATION 01? MISSOURI.

DYIh'iAMC-ELECEBIC norms.

Specification oi. Letters Patent.

yet-outed July 333i, 3191526 Application filed S'unc 15, 191%. Serial 1%. 703,785.

. specification.

My invention relates to dynamo electric machines and particularly to means for starting, or for starting and operating single-phase motors.

My invention is applicable to motors having a stator closed along a plurality of axes and a rotor provided with s. commuted windj ing and brushes cooperating therewith. 180/71 degrees where n stands for the numhave discovered that i can cause a machine of this description to from rest withu powerful torque by displscing the brushes coacting with the commuted winding by a small angle from one of the axes along which the stationary member is short-circuied and by connecting said brushes to the supply. if the brushes occupy a. position coincident with the one of the axes along which the stationary member isclosed or short-circuited, then no torque will be developed, nor will a torque be developed if said brushes occupy a position half way between the sizes along which the stationary member is closed, provided the time constants of the various stator circuits are the some and pro vided they. all stand in the some inductive lotion to the rotor. In order to secure o. starting torque, l" displace-the commutstor brushes by a small angle from one the axes ulong which the stator is closed connect said brushes to the source of cite noting current. To improve, this starting torque, i give the closed, or short-circuited' stator windings different space distribution In this manner, I can start motors possessing the elements in question without interrupting the stator short-circuits? This, in some cases, is u very material advantage. I can, operate such machines in their starting con nection, but'I generally. prefer to convert them into induction motors having a shunt characteristic after a. sufiioient spee' has been-reached. I can do this by connecting the commuted winding to slip-rings well as to a commutator, disconnecting the mains from the commutator and connecting them to said slip rings after a sufficient speed has been reached. l Wlll describe my invention more particu? larly with reference to u single-phase con.

verter and will show how it can be applied for the purpose of startingsuch a machine from the alternating current side.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l. shows a singlephase 2-pole converter provided with stator windings along axes displaced by electrical degrees. .Fig. 2 illuS- tra-tes a similar 2-pole machine, the stator of which is provided with windings closed degrees, and Fig. 3 shows the preferred relative space distribution of the stator windings for r.- 2-pole motor having stator windings displaced by 90 electrical degrees, that is by her of poles of the motor.

Referring to Fig; l, the stator carries two permanently closed windings 16, 19, displaced by lSO/n degrees, and an exciting winding 17 adopted to be connected to the brushes 9; 10, by way of the switch 18. The rotor carries a commuted Winding 11 with which the brushes 9, 10, coiiperate. These brushes are displaced by a. small angle a with respect to the short-circuited Stator winding 16. The commuted winding ll is also connected to the sliprings 12,15 on which rest the brushes 13, 14 connected to the terminals 5, 7, of the machine. The torminals 6, 8 thereof are connected to the brushes 9, l0 resting on the commuted wind double throw 2-polc switch is .pted to connect the alternating current sin 2, 3, either to the commutator brushes or to the sliprings. F

The mode or" operation of this machinois as follows: At starting the switch ld-may hug left open and the moms 2,3 are connected After it has reached ,a, sufiicient speed,

switch 4 cunbe moved to points fiend 7.

The machine will now operate as anordialong three axes displaced by 1% electrical niry single-phase asynchronous motor and it is desired to 'convert same into it singleohos. converter delivering dzrect'currentto the loads :29, 80, then it'is only n'ccem'ary to close switch 18, thus connecting winding .17

to the commutator brushes 9, 10 and producing at right angles-to said brushes, a definite unidirectional magnetization.

The reason why the machine will start when the brushes 9, 10 are; connected to an alternating current supply, provided these brushes be slightly displaced from one of the short-circuited stator windings, such as 16, by the small angle a, may be explained as follows: The alternating current sent into the brushes 9, 10 produces a certain number of ampere turns directed along the axis of the brushes 9, 10 and can be decomposed intt two components at right angles to each other. The component coinciding in dircc tion with the axis of the stator winding 16 is proportioned to 1802a degrees. The component at right angles to it and, therefore, coinciding in direction with the axis of the stator winding 19 is proportioned to 1% degrees. Assume that each of the stator windings 1G, '19 is distributed over one half of the stator bore, as is usual. Noting that the rotor ampere turns magnetizing along the axis of the winding 16, are distributed over a large portion of the rotor circumference, it will be seen that they must be in good inductive relation with the winding 16. Said winding having a low ohmic resistance and being short-circuited, the flux of mutual in duction between rotor and stator along the axis of 16, will be small. In the horizontal axis, the rotor ampere turns are distributed over a small portion of the rotor circumference and are, therefore, in a less thorough inductive relation with the low resistance shortcircuited stator winding 19. This condition will result in a somewhat larger flux of mutual induction between the rotor and stator along the horizontal than along the vertical axis. These two fluxes and the two belts of ampere turns on the rotor produce two torques in the motor and said torques oppose each other. If the rotor belts were equal in extent and the fluxes were equal in magnitude, then the resultant torque would be zero. As it is, the hori Zontal rotor belt, proportional to 2a, is of small extent and cooperates with the small vertical flux of mutual induction whereas the vertical rotor belt, proportional to 180-2a, is of much greater extent and cooperates With the larger flux of mutual induction which is present in the horizontal axis. This consideration will show that the arrangement described will cause the machine to start, even if both stator windings 1G and 19 are absolutely shmrt-circuited and have the same space distribution. The useful torque will be equal to the difference of the two component torques just discussed.

'2 my preferred. form of dynamo electric achine, I increase the useful torque by increasing the positive and decreasing the negat ve component thereof. This l achieve by giving the stator winding 16 a spacedistribution coinciding as nearly as possible with the angle 1802(1- and by distributing the stator winding- 1 over the whole stator bore as illustrated in Fig. 3. Under these conditions, the mutual induction between the vertical rotor ampere turns and the winding 10 will be the best possible while that between the horizontal rotor ampere turns and the stator winding 19 will be very poor. The vertical flux of mutual induction which codperates with the few horizontal ampere turns will be small while the horizontal flux of mutual induction cooperating with the many vertical rotor ampere turns will be much larger. Since the first two are responsible for the i'iegative and the last two for the positive torque components, it is clear that the resultant or useful torque will be increased.

F 2 differs from Fig. l in that a high ohmic resistance 28 is arranged to bridge the contacts of the switch 18 so that the circuit of the exciting winding 17 is never interrupted and in that the stator carries a short tircuited three-phase winding 95, 26, 27, instead or" the short-circuited two-phase winding 16, 1.). The brushes 9, 10 are here displaced by a small angle a from the resultant axis of magnetization 31 of the two Windings and 2G. and the operation of the machine is exactly similar to that of Fig. 1. The two stator windings 25, 26 may be considered as taking the place of the winding 16 of Fig. 1 and the winding 27 of Fig. 2 as taking the place of winding 19 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the preferred distribution of the short-circuited stator windings in case two such windings only are used and are displaced by 90 electrical degrees. This fignrc shows a Q-polc motor and is otherwise quite similar to Fig. 1. At starting, switch t stands on points (3. 8 connecting the alternating current mains 2, 3 to the connnutator brushes 9, 10. 1t it is desired to convert the machine into an ordinary induction motor with shunt clnu'actcristic after the machine has rcachcd a sullicicnt speed, it is only ncccssm'y to throw switch 4- on to points 5 and 7.

Having fully described my inventiolnwhat.

T claim as new and desire to secure by Let-,

windings being distributed over a smaller portion of the stator than the other, of a rotor having a commuted winding and brushes displaced from. each axis along which the stator is short-circuited, and

means for supplying alternating current to the brushes;

3. Ina dynamo electric machine, the combination with a stator provided with at least two short-circuited windings per pole pair positioned along differentaxes, of a rotor having a commuted winding and sliprings connected thereto, brushes on the commuted winding displaced from each axis along which the stator is short-circuited, and means for supplying alternating current to the brushes or to the sliprings at will.

4, In a. dynamo electric machine, the combination with a stator provided with at least two short-circuited distributed windings per pole pair having different axes, one of said windings being distributed over a smaller portion of the stator than the other. of n. rotor having: a commuted windon the commuted winding displaced from each axis along which the statoris short circuited, and means for supplyin alternating current to the brushes or to 516 sliprings at will.

' 5. In a dynamo electric machine, the combination with a source of alternating current, of a stator having one short-circuited winding distributed over l80-2a electrical degrees and another short-circuited winding displaced from the first and having a different space distribution, a rotor having a commuted winding, and brushes connected to the supply and displaced by :2 degrees from the first stator winding.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed myseal in the presence ofthe two subscribing witnesses.

SIMON SPARROW. [1,. a] Witnesses I VAL A. FYNN, EMILY W. HEUERMAN. 

